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Message-Id: <1352887257-23142-1-git-send-email-gmate.amit@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:30:57 +0530
From: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@...il.com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: amiller@...lx.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, joe@...ches.com,
devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8187se: r8180_core.c: Inspect the return value of register_netdev()
Inspect the return value of register_netdev() in the driver probe routine and
return -ENODEV in case of error.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@...il.com>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
index 20e5fb5..833b083 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c
@@ -3638,7 +3638,8 @@ static int __devinit rtl8180_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
netif_carrier_off(dev);
- register_netdev(dev);
+ if (register_netdev(dev))
+ goto fail1;
rtl8180_proc_init_one(dev);
--
1.7.9.5
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